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SUMMARY:Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival
DESCRIPTION:Tolpuddle has been a place of great importance to the Labour Movement from the moment news broke of the harsh sentences imposed on the six farm workers who led the formation of the union. \n\n\n\nOne of the earliest organised commemorations was in 1875 when the Agricultural Workers Union presented an engraved watch and illuminated address to James Hammett\, the only one of the six Martyrs to return to Tolpuddle. \n\n\n\nApril 1908 a meeting of theTolpuddle Martyrs’ Memorial Scheme Committee agreed to launch an appeal for a pamphlet to tell the story with the aim of erecting some sort of memorial in the village. In 1912 a memorial arch was unveiled outside the Methodist Chapel in Tolpuddle by Arthur Henderson\, the Labour Leader. \n\n\n\nIn 1922 the Working Women’s Club Fete and the National Union of Agricultural Workers held a joint festival. In 1925 a party of ASLEF railway workers stopped in Tolpuddle to pay silent tribute at the arch. Other individuals visited the village including Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on his way back from Cornwall in 1933. \n\n\n\nIn 1934\, Lloyd George\, leader of the Liberals\, came to lay a wreath and praise the role of trade unions
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LOCATION:Toldpuddle
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